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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-10-16 01:25:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:42:55 -0700
commitafddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68 (patch)
tree4726e3d3b0e9e8e5b5d3b2b0cccb36446bbdf3ca /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent637aff46f94a754207c80c8c64bf1b74f24b967d (diff)
fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). [mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] [dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index f0f825808ca4..fe26cc978523 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -178,15 +178,18 @@ prototypes:
locking rules:
All except set_page_dirty may block
- BKL PageLocked(page)
+ BKL PageLocked(page) i_sem
writepage: no yes, unlocks (see below)
readpage: no yes, unlocks
sync_page: no maybe
writepages: no
set_page_dirty no no
readpages: no
-prepare_write: no yes
-commit_write: no yes
+prepare_write: no yes yes
+commit_write: no yes yes
+write_begin: no locks the page yes
+write_end: no yes, unlocks yes
+perform_write: no n/a yes
bmap: yes
invalidatepage: no yes
releasepage: no yes